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Moore's Law, Illustrated

beagle — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:15:37 -0800

A nice photogallery, with descriptions, illustrating the progress of Moore's Law from a 1958 single-transistor Texas Instruments integrated circuit to the anticipated 2009 AMD Phenom II, with 758,000,000 transistors.

Bigger, better, faster, NOW!

starvingartist — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 08:22:22 -0800

Is there a Moore's Law for roller coasters? Ohio's own Cedar Point has announced it's newest record-breaking roller coaster - the Top Thrill Dragster. Here are the high points (pun intended):

a 420-foot tower - the first coaster ever to top 400 feet
top speed of 120mph - in 4 seconds
a 90-degree turn at the top of the tower and an almost vertical drop back down

Downside - the whole thing lasts a mere 30 seconds. But I bet it's a fun 30 seconds. Can't wait to go.

andnbsp — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:55:38 -0800

IBM gives Moore's Law a punch in the face by developing a 110GHz silicon germanium microchip. Only for use in ultra hi-tech environments right now (network infrastructure, military, etc.), of course. What other things could these processors be useful for? Finding vaccines? Genome mapping? SETI? And how many years before they're mass-producible and inexpensive enough for consumer use?